JOHN ROWLAND 1925-1996. A MEMENTO
Canberra: Compiled by The Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade. Historical Documents Branch. 1996. Tall 4to in printed wrappers. pp.43. Fine.
BIOGRAPHY
THE LONELY SEA AND THE SKY Autobiography of Francis Chichester
London, Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1964. First Edition. Royal 8vo. pp. 352. with illustrations and photographs and maps in black & white. index. Original green cloth hardcover in rear tanned complete dust wrapper. Very small booksellers ticket to front paste down.Else very good copy.
Painting and Decorating Working Methods: A Text Book For Apprenctice Journeyman Housepainter Decorator International Association of Master Painters and Decorators
New York. Published by Theo Audel. 1945. 8vo. pp.ii + 294 + 6p. publishers ads.painters colour chart at front and black and white illustrations in text. original black cloth gilt titling.
RULERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.
London. Published by The Folio Society. 1997- 1998. Five Volumes. Cleopatra by Jack Lindsay, Hannibal by Ernle Bradford. Nero by Micheal Grant, Alexander The Great by Robin Lane Fox.Julius Caesar by Christian Meier. Royal 8vo. with illustrations and maps throughout. there is minor pale spotting to foredges. Each volume is.....
CHARLIE CHAPLIN. A Brief Life.
New York, Doubleday. 2014. 8vo. pp.viii + 289 with black & white photographs. White quarter cloth with papered boards hardcover in original pictorial dust wrapper. Very Good.
THE LIFE OF THOMAS MORE.
Folio Society, London, 2017. 8vo.pp.xxi + 456 + 32 platesmostly in colour. Quarter black cloth in decorated boards in orange slip case. Fine as new copy in the origial publishers shrink wrap. Tudor History.
GANDHI ,Naked Ambition.
Quercus , London , 2010. 8vo.pp.xii +323 ,illustrations,notes,bibliography ,index. Very Good handcover in Very Good dust wrapper. ISBN 9781849162104 A concise ,elegant and masterly account of one of the seminal figures of twentieth century history.
THE SPOTTED SPHINX.
New York. & London. Published by Harcourt Brace & World Inc, 1969. First US Edition. small 4to. pp.vi + 324. Photographs in colour and black & white, map end papers. Previous owners inscription on half title page.Black cloth hardcover in chipped and nicked dust wrapper. The first book on the.....
CYRANO, The life & Legend of Cyrano De Bergerac.
London. Published by Simon & Schuster, 2008. 8vo.pp.vi + 307 index, black & white photographs and illustrations. foredges yellowing else very good in original hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Cyrano de Bergerac was a death defying soldier, poet in the age of the Musketeers. His dueling skills were unparalleled and.....
WILLIAM ROBINSON. 1838-1935. Father of the English Flower Garden
London. Published by Faber and Faber. 1982. 8vo. pp.255, index illustrations in black & white. bibliography. Original green hardcover in complete pictorial dust wrapper. Fine. Robinson fought uncompromisingly against the artificiality of fashionable Victorian carpet bedding and geometric gardening. He won his battle and became the man who changed the.....
ROSE SCOTT: Vision and revision in Feminism.
Melbourne, Publshed by Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition. Royal 8vo pp.xi +331 index, select bibliography, notes & black and white photographs. Original dark green hardcover in pictorial dustwrapper. Rose Scott (1847-1925) was a central figure in the history of Australian feminist reform. This book is the first detailed account.....
STILL HERE. An Autobiography.
London. Published by Weidenfeld, 1984. First Edition. 8vo.pp.xii+ 195; index, illustrations Original owners inscription on verso front endpaper else Very Good hardcover in Very Good price clipped dust wrapper. Hardy Amies rose to become one of Britains leading couturiers and his salon remained one of the few to rival fashion.....
HIGH MOUNTAINS AND COLD SEAS A Biography of H.W.Tilman.
London. Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1980. 8vo. pp.366 + black & white photographs and maps. Green cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper.
TINA MODOTTI: Between Art and Revolution
New Haven & London: Published by Yale University Press, 2003. First Edition in English. 8vo. pp.xviii + 329. Index and illustrations in black & white. a few spots on the foredges Original red hardcover in pictorial dustt wrapper. Very Good. A charismatic stage and screen actress. A model whose beauty.....
THE NATURALIST. The Remarkable Life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch.
Sydney, Published by NewSouth Publishing, 2022. 8vo.pp.viii + 190 with colour and black & white illustrations. Original pictorial softcover. Very good. For lovers of natural history, this is the first book to explore Allan Riverstone McCulloch’s scientific genius, artistic talents and his crucial role in the development of the Australian.....
BRIEF LIVES.
London, Published by The Folio Society. 2016. Edited from the original manuscripts by Oliver Lawson Dick. Introduced by Peter Conrad. Illustrated by Joe Ciardiello. 8vo. pp. 433. Quarter black cloth with pictorial boards in tan slipcase.Fine as new copy in original publishers shrink wrap.
CAPTAIN COOK. Navigator and Scientist. Papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium Australian Academy of Science, Canberra 1 May 1969
Canberra, Published by Australian National University Press, 1970. Introduction by Sir Macfarlane Burnet. First Edition.,8vo. pp ix + 143 with 4 colour and 18 black & white illustrations. Colour portrait of Captain Cook, endpaper maps of the voyage of the Endeavour in the South Pacific 1769-1770. Previous owners name &.....
LET IT BE RECORDED. A Family's Journey Through Outback Queensland.
Published by The Author. 1998. Second Edition. pp.120 with black & white illustrations. Very good.
JOSEPHINE. The Hungry Heart.
New York. Published by Random House, 1993. First Edition. Royal 8vo. pp.xxiii + 533, index with photographs in black & white, Original black cloth spine, green boards hardcover in pictorial dustwrapper. Fine copy.
THE PASTONS. A Family In The War of The Roses.
London, The Folio Society, 2001. Royal 8vo. pp.208 + 10 full page colour plates, map endpapers. Full pictorial hardcover in blue slipcase. Very good.
LIPSTICK SWAG AND SWEATING. Memoirs of A Patrol Padre's Wife.The Australian Inland Mission.1947-55.
Rockhampton, Published by Central Queensland University Press, 1998. 8vo. pp.196 with black & white photographs and maps. Pictorial quality pictorial wrappers..Very Good.
SAUL BELLOW LETTERS.
New York. Published by Viking/, 2010. Royal 8vo. pp.xxxvi + 571 with black & white photographs. Index, quarter yellow cloth hardcover in pictorial price clipped dust wrapper. A very good copy/. Saul Bellow wrote marvellously acute unsparing, tender, ferocious, hilarious and wise letters throughout his long life. Friends, lovers, wives.....
A WALKABOUT LIFE. Case Histories of A Nursing Sister In Love With Life.
Australia, Published by The Author. 2018. Royal 8vo. pp. 286 with colour and black & white photographs and other illustrations.Original stiff card pictorial softcover. Signed by the Author on the title page,
A CASTLE IN TUSCANY. The Remarkable Life of Janet Ross.
Millers Point. NSW. Published by Peir 9. 2006. Small 4to. pp. 224. patterned end papers. Illustrated throughout in black & white and sepia. Printed pictorial papered hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. A fine copy. Lovers of classic food books might recognise her name no lesser figure than Elizabeth David cited.....
WILSON
Simon & Shuster,London, 2013. Large thick softcover,8vo.pp.xi+818, illustrations.index. Very Good. Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century ,as as one of the most enigmatic.More than one hundred years after his inauguration Pulitzer prize winning author Scott Berg has produced this biography.berg has.....